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How does race thinking and thinking about race impact on family relations, particularly within ‘mixed marriages’ and adoption across ‘racial’ lines in society. Other areas include researching how different generations construct notions of race against or within existing common sense notions about race; or how race classification – formal or in everyday life – is denied in contemporary South Africa.
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Stereotypes and the social psychology of repression
This presentation considers how people manage the demand to both express stereotypes in order to account for inequality and social injustice and simultaneously repress them in order to deflect the criticism of racism. It draws on the work of…
Race Classification at the University of KwaZulu‐Natal: Purposes, Sites and Practices
Race classification has long been a feature of South African life, in daily life and its cognitive processes, and also in formal state-driven bureaucratic forms. In the post-apartheid period, classification of individuals on the basis of race has…
Pledge simply imitates the West
A CAREFUL analysis of the proposed pledge at any level inside or outside school reveals the fundamental art and science of imitation in our education system.
Young views on the new school pledge
EDUCATION Minister Naledi Pandor unveiled her plan for all school pupils to recite a pledge every morning during assembly, in a Cape Town press conference, recently.
The government cannot impose true allegiance
WE, THE youth of South Africa, recognising the injustices Of our past, honour those who suffered and sacrificed For justice and freedom.